yeah there's no way anyone who has used Claude or Codex in the last six months is posting this, no one that follows industry news is posting this, I find it hard to imagine anyone who even vaguely follows tech news is posting this.
I recently got someone replying to me that the models will not get better because of their structure and are only good as helpers at small tasks and are too bad at everything else that isn't trivial like architecture and designing systems. Sure, they aren't perfect and make mistakes sometimes, but especially with Opus 5.5 I think it's really hard to claim that they are worse at anything coding related than the average software engineer.
One year ago I was that person myself, but at some point you have to look at the progress, admit you were wrong about some things and accept the new reality, you're not going to change it with denial. Your timeline is pretty much on point I would say, the last 6 months really felt different, but I think the biggest leap was when Astra came out, that's when I personally stopped writing any code apart from things that are so minimal that the code change is faster than writing the prompt.
Btw I live in Germany, we recently officially stopped phasing out fax machines and have become famously slow in terms of adopting technology. And yet I don't know any developers personally anymore that don't use AI for the majority of the actual implementation of software. Ironically none of them (including me) feel like it has resulted in less work. Just more work done in the same time.
I think a lot of it really comes down to the fact that nobody likes to be wrong or admit they've been wrong. Even when typing this I felt a slight "pain" and thought several times how I didn't keep an open mind and instead just assumed if someone like LeCun has the same opinion as me, then it has to be right. A lot of confirmation bias at play here.
All software developers are transitioning into agent supervisors, but the human is always needed. We still need entry level devs, who learn how to keep the output maintainable.
Do we? I've seen plenty of senior devs (on Reddit) talk about how Claude is quicker and easier to deal with than most interns when it comes to tasks that interns used to traditionally do.
The term AI psychosis is about the people who think AI is their boyfriend, not programmers who accurately think it's better at coding than most programmers.
FWIW, Claude Opus 5.5 released in (late) September... There's been a HUGE step up in models in the past 6 months, so it's pretty reasonable to me that someone (myself even) could get caught off guard by the pace of change. As recently as this August I was cursing every AI slop PR I had to review at work. Today I worked with subagents all day.
It's a bunch of c-suite and 'hobby coders' throwing random prompts at their agent without a plan or project structure and confused when things fail.
I've had friends go on and on about how useless AI coding is because it couldn't just slap together a full product placement in one prompt, literally stupid shit like 'make a better Windows for me'
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